Assad's Bloody Comeback -- Con Coughlin, The Telegraph
With help from Tehran and Moscow, the regime in Damascus no longer appears doomed.
Iran's military support to Bashar al-Assad is starting to have a decisive impact on the course of Syria's brutal sectarian conflict. For the first time in more than two years of fighting, in which roughly 90,000 Syrians have perished, the Assad regime now appears to have a distinct chance at survival—a remarkable turnaround for a government that, less than a year ago, looked doomed.
Recent advances by Assad forces against rebels on the outskirts of Damascus, Aleppo and the Lebanese border town of Qusayr—where the regime has been engaged in a bitter battle to reclaim control of the city—suggest that the tide of the conflict is shifting dramatically in favor of Assad.
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